That’s what a jury in Cumberland County Court heard Wednesday when Cumberland County Chief Deputy District Attorney Matthew Smith played tapes of Lance Greenawalt’s jailhouse chatter with fellow prisoner Timothy Bryce when the two shared a cell in the State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill in Lower Allen Township in September 2010.

Prosecutors offered the tapes as evidence that Greenawalt, 46, asked Bryce to kill two Adams County men and that Greenawalt beat up one of them with a baseball bat in 2006.

“You just walk in there and bang, bang. Nobody will ever hear the shots,” said a voice alleged to be Greenawalt, advising Bryce on killing Daniel Keys of Orrtanna, Adams County.

The other alleged target of the murder-for-hire-plot, John Lloyd of Dickinson Township, employed Greenawalt as a handyman at rental properties in 2005 and 2006, and is related to Keys.

The jury – comprised of four women and eight men – heard excerpts from about 13 hours of recordings from 2010 that were made Sept. 21, 22 and 23, in which voices alleged to be Bryce’s and Greenawalt’s discuss motorcycle rides, fat and cholesterol content of foods, local real estate and how Bryce could obtain weapons, sneak into Keys’ and Lloyds’ homes, kill them and escape unnoticed.

The voice allegedly Greenawalt’s is heard laughing about the April 30, 2006, incident in which Keys was attacked in his trailer with boiling water and a bat.

The alleged voice of Greenawalt, however, referred several times on the tapes to a group of attackers that included him and two other men. The taped voice also said that Lloyd put him up to the attempted murder and helped by getting Keys out of the house long enough for the three men to break in and prepare for the attack.

The motive was money, the taped testimony claimed. The voice attributed to Greenawalt said that Keys had written Lloyd out of his will and was giving all of his substantial estate to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and that Lloyd had taken Greenawalt to a lawyer in Hanover and signed over his entire estate to Greenawalt.

Testimony disputed some of the taped remarks. Keys testified he was attacked by a single assailant, Keys and Lloyd testified that each is the other’s closest comrade and heir, and Lloyd said he wrote Greenawalt into his will only to receive his cremated ashes.

Neither Smith nor co-prosecutor Brian Sinnett, Adams County first assistant district attorney, would comment on whether anyone else would be charged in connection with the 2006 assault.

Also Wednesday, Bryce testified he lied to police in past roles as an informant in an attempt to shorten his own sentence, but he said Greenawalt’s case was different.

“I could never live with my conscience if I’d allowed Greenawalt to carry out his campaign of violence and retribution,” Bryce testified, but he said he did write to state police about a month after the recordings asking for consideration in a retail theft charge against him.

Bryce wrote several letters recording details of the baseball-bat attack on Keys that he said Greenawalt told him after the two inmates became friends and then cell mates at State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill in August 2010. He turned them over to prison officials, who passed them to state police.

State Police Trooper Benjamin Wilson, now an investigator with Troop H Carlisle and liaison to State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill, was a patrol office in Adams County in 2006. He testified that Bryce’s letters sparked memories of an unsolved crime.

Bryce testified he asked Wilson to wire him with a concealed recording device, but investigators opted instead to wire the prison cell. About half of the tapes were recorded before Bryce knew the bug was present.

Bryce also gave police several hand-drawn maps that Keys and Lloyd identified Tuesday as accurate drawings of their properties. Bryce said Greenawalt had prepared them as part of the murder plot. Police found only Bryce’s fingerprints on the documents.

The trial continues Thursday in the courtroom of Judge M.L. Ebert Jr. Ebert told the jury Wednesday he expects testimony to conclude Thursday or Friday.

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